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KazumaKiryu on 25 October 2017
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Bandorr said:

Wow this whole thing reeks.
Sony has no problem releasing a ton of Single-player games... but Microsoft has problem funding them?

"Gamers want higher fidelity and they want higher resolution graphics." I'm surprised they didn't throw in "oh and did you see our X1X - it does just that".

edit: Also guess that means we will never see Quantum break 2.  That had to be super expensive with those factors actors.

Microsoft has a sad attitude in my opinion. I only play good singleplayer-games :) And games that have an incredible singleplayer inclusive a great multiplayer / online mode like Uncharted, Metal Gear Solid 3/4 and The Last of Us.

Nautilus said:
Oh please.What a load of bullshit.So how games like P 5 and Nier Automata can be already successful with 1 million unit sold?

Its simply a matter of budgeting your game right.Western studios either blow out of the proportion their budget in the development part or in the marketing.Or they just plain dosent know how to manage a project.

But being honest, the REAL reason why western studios are walking away from at the very least, single player focused games is because they cant charge extra with them, either by microtransactions or lootboxes.Its simply easier to make a multiplayer game and be done with it, then implementing a multiplayer in one game that already has a strong single player content(because these companies NEED to have microtransactions and the only way is through a multiplayer mode)

Its sad really.It also shows why MS is losing the war.

good singleplayer(&story)-games are very successful in the last years/months. Persona 5 was delivered over 1.8 million times. the new ip Horizon Zero Dawn sells in the life 6-7 million times. Bloodborne, Dark Souls 3, FF15 and many other titles have amazing sales figures. Uncharted 4 has ca 10 million units, i think. Even japanese games like Ni-Oh and Nier Automata well over a million.

Radek said:
Funny that much poorer Sony can release games like Uncharted, Horizon Zero Dawn, God Of War, Spiderman, Detroit Being Human, Day's Gone, The Last of Us 2 and more...
NawaiNey said:
I wonder how Sony is making God of War, Days Gone, Spider-Man, Detroit Become Human, The Last of Us 2, Death Stranding. These are all single player titles (some might have a multiplayer component, but it's not the focus) with cutting edge graphical fidelity and no doubt huge budgets.

One of the big reasons why many players do not want a xbox. And many nintendo-fans prefer a PS4, the reason is simple: The PS4 has a lot of singleplayer and multiplayer/online-games. The Xbox One does not -.- Added to this is the great support for japanese-games, jrpgs and anime-games on PS4. And what does Microsoft do ? Microsoft has delete games like "Scalebound", that makes the player angry.

My conclusion/thoughts: The next few years are very hard for Microsoft because they simply offer too few games for the players. And interesting is .. the new xbox one .. has for the people no meaning. Many PS4 exclusive games look better graphically than all xbox one-exclusives. (God of War, Last of Us 2, Death Stranding, Horizon Zero Dawn, Spiderman ect..)! MS has no desire, everything without love (in the last 4-5 years). Hard words, I know. But many people think so - even me.